Monday, July 2, 2012

Adult Twitter Meltdown...Cue Name Calling and Bullying

It never fails to amaze me just how infantile adults can become on social media. Heaven forbid if you challenge their sense of their own importance. All heck will break lose. Case in point, this morning:

A rather well known conservative had tweeted about the recent Supreme Court ruling calling the Chief Justice a coward. Now what ever you might think of the ruling, Roberts is many things, a coward is not one of them. So I wrote back just that and I also added that he needed to not call names. That name calling is bullying. (You can read some of our interaction on my time line HERE if you like.)

Oy va voy...his meltdown of the day ensued. He called me a lefty, and a bully. I guess this rant made sense to this interlocutor since according to him, it was the Left "bullying" of the Chief Justice that got him to change his mind, not that Roberts can think for himself and make his own decisions. I mean Roberts is only one of the preeminent lawyers of our time. I suppose accordingly to this individual that means that Roberts has no ability to think, analyze and function on an adult level.

Needless to say I answered telling him that I am from a family of Reagan republicans, a constitutional and civil rights lawyer and before he attacks people he really needs to learn something about them. That actually just seemed to set him off more. He accused me of hiding behind a pseudonym and said I wasn't being taken seriously if I don't use my real name. I then of course did the mature thing and wrote back that if I am not to be taken seriously why is he responding to me?

Someone attempted to intervene between us but to no avail. The meenie-tweeter just wouldn't stop and didn't apologize when I called him out once again for his bullying. Oh and I did tell him he was being whiny and unmenschy too.

@joelpollak get over yourself boychik...u really are very whiny and not very menschy this morning.
— Independent Patriot (@LibertysSpirit) July 2, 2012

Listen we are constantly regaled about the Left and their use of nasty tactics and bullying and name calling. Look at how they talk about Sarah Palin, or even more recently Anne Romney. Problem is if you don't like a tactic don't use it yourself. Be the person you think you are.

After writing about this on facebook, one of my FB friends wrote this:

" ...Wow! It's really sad that we
are teaching our kids not to bully & name-call, but adults
(especially when speaking about politics) bully/name-call those who have
differing opinions. Way to be a good example to our young people! :-/ "

In all seriousness, how are our children supposed to learn to not bully when the adults in this world use it as their weapon of choice? People write how the culture has been dumbed-down or that there are no boundaries anymore. Well truth be told, there are boundaries if you set them, stick by them and stand up for your principles in a civilized and respectful manner.

No I am not upset about this morning. More bemused in fact. With the news media lying and editing tapes the way they want; with spin doctors playing fast and lose with the truth; with politicians and pundits displaying infantile behavior (from calling you a racist to a Marxist), is it not a wonder that CM2 thinks his vote means nothing? He has decided that all adults are morons and that noone really cares about the future. This is CM2's first Presidential election and he is thinking about sitting it out....shame on the political class.

If we are ever going to solve this nation's issues, we are going to have to have a forthright and honest discussion about what needs to be done and how to go about doing it. This reality takes grown-ups, something I see completely lacking in our society today on both sides of every issue.

Honestly, all I see is adults name-calling and bullying. Not able to have real open dialogue without trying to deflect and divide. By the way, these hurtful and hate-filled actions are the last true resort of a "coward," not writing an unexpected Supreme Court opinion.

KEEP CALM

LEGEND

For those who are new to this blog below are the acronyms and who they belong to:

WoS aka hubby: Wise Old Sage. Name given to the husband by the boys..as opposed to me whom they just refer to as a pain in the tuchas

HSB aka highschoolboy: my younger son who is now a high school graduate.

CM1 aka collegeman: this is a moniker for my oldest who is a college graduate. We are calling him collegeman1 because his brother is collegeman2. However, CM1 is starting a masters graduate program this fall and will now, from 5/18/13, be referred to as Mr. GS or Mr. Graduate Student. He graduated with a Masters degree in Computer Science May 2015. Now our goal for him is to integrate him into an adult life, he is Mr. Young Man or Mr.YM. In the ensuing 6 months it has been decided that Mr.YM would go back to school for an additional Masters degree in software engineering, so he is now back to being Mr.GS1.

CM2 aka HSB now Mr. GS2: formerly highschoolboy who is now a college senior. He is known as collegeman2. But don't tell him, he thinks nicknaming him collegeman is idiotic, sophomoric and just plain dumb. So we will keep this just between us. He graduated with a BA May 2015. He was accepted into a Masters program in Media and Communications, so now he is Mr. Graduate Student2, or Mr. GS2.